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Originally Posted by Seanette
IMy comment was not about people who read best-sellers, it was about those who ONLY read what NYT or Oprah have declared worthy so they can be just like everyone else.
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If that's what you were trying to say, you should have used words other than:
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Why choose from the best-sellers, unless you want to be following the "what everyone else is reading" flock?
I prefer to choose my entertainment based on my own tastes, not the herd mind.
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There's nothing in there about people who choose *only* from the best seller list. There is simply a condemnation of people who "choose from the best-sellers" as people who don't think for themselves and are only reading those books because that's "what everyone else is reading."
And then you point out that you are different from them because *you* choose your entertainment based on your "own tastes," not "the herd mind."
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Let me guess, you take the NYT or Oprah as your reading guide and will not read that which your reading guide has not pronounced blessings on as "important", "meaningful", etc. Only explanation I can think of for the amount of energy you've poured into a defensive tizzy over some faceless online stranger expressing differing selection criteria.
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No, I don't read many bestsellers. I just dislike arrogance.